Women’s Literature Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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A Look at the Life of Condemned Women in Burial Rites, a Novel by Hannah Kent (1052 words, 3 pages)

Set against the bleak Icelandic landscape, Kents Burial Rites explores the life of condemned women, Agnes Magnusdottir. By allowing Agnes to have a voice readers are able to understand her death as a product of not only her own choices but the society in which she lived in. A society ... Read More

The Relationship Between Women and Nature in The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution, a Book by Carolyn Merchant (957 words, 4 pages)

In her book, The Death of Nature Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution, Carolyn Merchant carefully demonstrates how literary, philosophical, scientific, religious, social, and political links have been drawn to connect women and nature. Merchant identifies how the images of both women and nature that are popularized operate within similar ... Read More

The Sixth Sense of Lily in The Secret Life of Bees, a Novel by Sue Monk Kidd (1088 words, 3 pages)

The Secret Life Of BeesA character's attempt to recapture the past is important in many plays, novels, and poems. Sue Monk Kidd was born in the city of Sylvester, Georgia (1948). Through her younger years she lived in the time of racism, civil rights, and gender inequalities. In the year ... Read More

The Perspective of Firdaus in Woman at Point Zero, a Novel by Nawal El Saadawi (1322 words, 4 pages)

The use of Firdaus as the narrator affects how we view other characters. For her to be the narrator of the novel, it makes the novel seem more realistic. You can feel and see what she went through because she uses imagery to help you have a clear and more ... Read More

An Analysis of Literary Elements in Once Upon a Time, a Story by Nadine Gordimer (575 words, 2 pages)

Tragically Ever AfterUsually in a fairytale, it's expected to see a prince, a princess, and their devastating journey that always ends with true love and a happily ever after. Unfortunately for the characters in this fairytale, the story is reversed and the happily ever after seems to turn into tragically ... Read More

The Theme of Isolation and the Coulibri Estate in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (735 words, 2 pages)

"Antoinette is trapped between two cultures, clearly without status, a condition which is clearly linked to her descent into madness"In light of this view, consider Rhys' presentation and use of setting in Wide Sargasso Sea.Isolation is a key theme in wide Sargasso, and Rhys uses setting to allude to this. ... Read More

The Relationship Between Rochester and Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (927 words, 2 pages)

"Antoinette can be read as a victim of a dominant discourse (a European, white male one at that), which discourages any syncretic possibilities." Rhys adopts a dominant narrative voice in part two of the novel to stress the presiding nature of Rochester and thus the damage that many white Europeans ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Sheila Mant in the Story The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant (330 words, 1 pages)

Analytical Paragraph In his story The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant W.D. Wetherell gives Sheila Mant several characterizations. Here is the first one, Im playing outfield, she said, I dont like the responsibility of having a base.(1) By the phrase I dont like the responsibility Sheila describes herself as ... Read More

An Analysis of Fifty Shades of Grey Using McKerrow’s Critical Rhetoric (1120 words, 4 pages)

A Criticism of Fifty Shades of GreyFor my analysis of Fifty Shades of Grey, I will be using McKerrows Critical Rhetoric. It discusses pointing out the source of power in the book, and then identifying a way to rectify the situation. Fifty Shades of Grey is dangerous for three reasons ... Read More

An Exploration of the No-Reason View of Love by Aaron Smuts (2763 words, 9 pages)

Reasons of LoveAaron Smuts is an avid defender of the no-reasons view of love. He argues that love can never be justified and so is neither appropriate nor inappropriate. Love is an attitude that is inherent, akin to hunger, and is thus not responsive to normative reasons. According to Smuts, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Cover of Weezie Bat, a Book by Francesca Lia Block (464 words, 2 pages)

Response to Cat YampbellRegardless of the quality of the literature, its cover often determines a books success, Cat Yampbell writes (1). While perhaps a philosophy taken to the extreme, it is understandable logic where else would the familiar adage, Dont judge a book by its cover come from? In the ... Read More

The Imperfections of the Human Soul in Of Innocents and Others, a Novel by Dana Spiotta (713 words, 2 pages)

Dana Spiottas novel, Of Innocents and Others, effortlessly highlights the imperfections of the human soul. Dana writes in a back and forth format with each section elaborating on the characters she created. Each of the characters struggle with self-acceptance, love, passion and indulgence into their passion. Showing the rawness of ... Read More

The Interrupted Journey to Womanhood in The Garden Party, a Short Story by Katherine Mansfield (1924 words, 7 pages)

The Garden Party Lauras Interrupted Journey to WomanhoodThe short story The Garden Party, was penned by Katherine Mason, a burgeoning short story writer from New Zealand, and the story was first published in 1922 in The Garden Party and Other Stories. This short story dives into modernity through innovative literary ... Read More

Gender Roles and Virtue in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina (982 words, 3 pages)

In Eliza Haywoods Fantomina, the story of a young girl experiencing attraction for the first time, unfolds into a scandalously messy webthe product of her navet and poor decisions. Or is it? The girl is known only by the pseudonyms she adopts throughout the piece, and those pseudonyms are chosen ... Read More

The Struggles of Women in Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg and What Makes a Woman by Elinor Burkett (1203 words, 4 pages)

The Transgender Struggle and Womens OppressionDespite transgendered people being associated with the LGBQT community, they are often ostracized and oppressed within that community. This is exemplified in Elinor Burketts What Makes a Woman? and Leslie Feinbergs Stone Butch Blues. In What Makes a Woman Burkett argues that transgender women do ... Read More

The Long History of Feminism in Literature (2505 words, 9 pages)

Feminism in LiteratureAlthough many people associate feminism as beginning with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and reaching its peak with the Feminist Movement of the 1970s, the history of feminism can be traced much farther back than this especially in literature. Though aspects of feminism are present in writing ... Read More

An Argument Mapping of The New Pygmalion: Verbal Hygiene for Women, a Book by Deborah Cameron (862 words, 3 pages)

Argument Mapping 3The goal of this essay is to present an argument mapping of Deborah Camerons The New Pygmalion Verbal Hygiene for Women. First I will define any important terms that are used by Cameron. Next, I will try to identify her central claim and any supporting claims that she ... Read More

A Biography of Ariwara no Narihira , One of the Six Poet Geniuses of Ninth Century Japan (1839 words, 8 pages)

With the passage of time comes the passing of passages. During this period many mishaps are bound to occur misplacement or vitiating of works, urban myths are created while legends are lost. A lot can transpire over the span of hundreds of years. Even in a matter of seconds history ... Read More

The Twists and Turns in Purple Hibiscus, a Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2883 words, 8 pages)

Infact rebellion is seen all throughout the novel and is presented by Kambilis brother, Jaja. A big clue that Rebellion plays a grand role in the book is the constant recurring back talk and actions going against papa. For example, on the very first page of the book on the ... Read More

Feminism and Critical Race Theory in The Day They Burned the Books, a Short Story by Jean Rhys (992 words, 3 pages)

Position Paper The Day They Burned the BooksJean Rhys short story, The Day They Burned the Books illustrates conflicts based around several aspects of cultural identity including race, gender and nationality. With this in mind, feminist and critical race theory are obvious lenses through which the text can be studied. ... Read More

Defiance of Gender Role in A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1265 words, 5 pages)

Defiance through Conformity in Mary Rowlandsons Captivity NarrativeMary Rowlandson was held captive by the Algonkian tribe for three months during King Phillips war. She chronicles this experience in A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Although it was an accomplishment in itself for a woman to ... Read More

The Contrast Between the Poor and Wealthy Through Miss Kilman’s Perspectives in the Novel, Mrs. Dalloway (656 words, 4 pages)

Mrs. Dalloway comments on society by showing the dichotomy between the wealthy and the poor, through the eyes of Miss Kilman. Miss Kilman provides a canvas of thought for the protagonist-- Clarissa Dalloway-- who thinks of her as a villain, with hooves who threatens her eternal soul, never to be ... Read More

The Use of Figurative Language in She Is Water, a Poem by Rupi Kaur (294 words, 1 pages)

In the poem She Is Water by Rupi Kaur, there are multiple occurrences of figurative language such as metaphor, analogy, and personification. For instance, the poet is comparing the girl directly to water (starting with the title) this can also be perceived as an example of personification. In the first ... Read More

The Silence of the Wives in Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, a Novel by Assia Djebar (3235 words, 11 pages)

The Silence of the Women of AlgiersAssia Djebar, feminist and author of Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, highlighted the subaltern state of the women in decolonized Algeria in her short story. Djebars novel is set after the Algerian War, when women were meant to dwell within their husband or ... Read More

A Book Report on Origin by Jessica Khoury (1341 words, 4 pages)

Book ReportThe novel I have chosen was Origin by Jessica Khoury. This book though non-fiction has some bits of scientific facts in it, the science part of this book is woven with fiction. This book is set in a base in the middle of the Amazon, called Little Cam. This ... Read More

Examples of Women’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance Included in the Collection of Short Stories The Sleeper Wakes (875 words, 4 pages)

The book The Sleeper Wakes edited by Marcy Knopf shines a bright light on the womens literature of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance is a time period where there was an increase in the African American population in the north. African Americans migrated north during this time period in ... Read More

The Exposure to Sexual Harassment and Marginalization of Zora Cadwell (859 words, 3 pages)

For my task, I decided to write about a woman Zora, who has experienced serious cruelty through rape and active marginalization from her family and society. She lives in the opressive city of Flint Michigan. Flint Michigan is said to be the worst place for women. Her constant exposure to ... Read More

A Look in the Iranian Revolution in Persepolis, a Novel by Marjane Satrapi (1591 words, 5 pages)

Persepolis In Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, readers are informed about the Iranian Revolution through a memoir. As a graphic novel, Persepolis, highlights many historical events that occurred during Marjanes life during the Iranian Revolution. Marjane is an adventurous character but can also be seen as a rebel for not ... Read More

A Personal Review of Untitled Feminist Show by Young Jean Lee (604 words, 3 pages)

Engaging PerformancesExperiencing the works Untitled Feminist Show and Straight White Men was an experience I doubt I will ever forget. These pieces of work were very different than anything I have ever seen and definitely left me with many things to reflect on.In Young Jean Lees Untitled Feminist Show six ... Read More

The Role of Women and Marriage in American Literature (1578 words, 7 pages)

Marriage and Women in American LiteratureDuring the late 1800s, Women writers such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin began to explore the concept of marriage in their short stories such as The Yellow Wallpaper and Story of an Hour however the concept of marriage has changed since then. These ... Read More

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